WHAT IS IT?
Over four days, we move through the full arc of regenerative land stewardship - from the ground up. Together, we’ll explore the hands-on design and planting of an agroforestry system, dive into the living soil food web, and uncover the role of mycelium in restoring degraded ecosystems. Guided by expert facilitators, we’ll dive into key frameworks like Permaculture Zone 5, Agroecology, and Fractal Design.
Woven throughout the experience is a dedicated focus on community building, offering practical tools for nervous system regulation and encouraging a deeper reflection on our ecological sense of self. We’ll wrap up the learning with an introduction to Local Exchange Trading Systems - a practical model for building economic resilience at the community scale.
On our final evening, we’ll gather around the fire for Food Ways - preparing and sharing the very crops planted during our agroforestry sessions. It’s four days of deep learning, made edible.
WHO IS IT FOR?
This program is designed for land stewards, permaculturists, bush regenerators, and conscious community members seeking practical, Earth-centered skills. Whether you manage a rural property, care for an urban plot, or are preparing to embark on collective land ownership, this experience is tailored for anyone ready to deepen their understanding of living systems, integrate ecological design into daily practice, and build resilient, place-based community connections.
Program Overview
1. Successional Agroforestry - Facilitators: Bunya Halasz (Growing Roots Permaculture), Cerise Daly, and Charlotte Daly
Learn to read a landscape and design a productive food system that works with natural succession rather than against it. Moving from concept to ground, this session explores design principles alongside hands-on agroforestry system planting.
2. Myco Regen - Facilitator: Troy Rees (We Forest Earth)
Mycelium is one of the most powerful and under-utilised tools in ecosystem restoration. Myco Regen covers the practice of regenerating land through the strategic application of fungal networks - particularly in bush regeneration settings where degraded or weed-ridden land can be brought back into balance without toxic chemicals. Includes both theory and practical application.
3. Soil Biology & the Food Web - Facilitator: Shanker Bala
Healthy land starts underground. Rooted in the Soil Food Web framework and applied directly to an agroforestry context, this session explores the living community of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and arthropods that drive soil fertility, nutrient cycling, and plant health - and what it takes to restore that community in degraded systems.
4. Permaculture Zone 5 - Facilitator: Paul Daley (A Lush Forest Media)
The edge between ecosystem restoration and food, fibre, and medicine production is where some of the most dynamic work in regenerative land management happens. This session explores the upper catchment as a site of ecological thinking - reading and working with wild systems as the foundation for everything downstream.
5. Community Building & Ecological Sense of Self - Facilitator: Natalie Wilkinson
Woven throughout all four days rather than held in a single slot, this thread provides practical tools for nervous system regulation, deepening your ecological connection to place, and building the social structures that make collective land stewardship viable over the long term.
6. Food Ways - Facilitators: Charlotte Daly with Bunya Halasz and Cerise Daly
On the final evening, we gather around the fire to cook from the agroforestry systems explored throughout the week. More than a cooking class, Food Ways is the natural conclusion of four days of ecological thinking made edible - recovering the relationship between the food we grow and the ways we prepare and share it.
7. Local Exchange & Community Economics - Facilitator: Fred Woller
How do regenerative communities sustain themselves economically outside conventional market systems? This session introduces Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) as a practical framework for building community-scale economic resilience - a fitting close to four days of learning how we live and work on the land together.
FACILITATORS
Bunya Halasz
Bunya is inspired by cultures that evolve creative practices of sustaining their material needs in a manner of deep reverence for their natural environment and all of its life forms. Through the lenses of Permaculture, Regenerative Agroecology and Successional Agroforestry, Bunya works as a farmer, designer, educator and regenerative farming mentor. His work supports individuals and communities to grow food, fuel and fibre within ecologically regenerative systems as well as facilitating pathways of knowledge and skill sharing through courses and traineeships.
Paul Daley
Paul Daley is a regenerative storyteller, filmmaker, and ecological restoration advocate. Raised at Daley’s Fruit Tree Nursery - Australia's premier fruit tree nursery - Paul grew up with a deep passion for biodiversity and healthy landscapes. Through his creative agency, A Lush Forest Media, he produces films that inspire environmental stewardship, ecological embodiment, and community action.
Shanker Bala
Shanger Bala is a soil biology practitioner and educator focused on restoring living soil systems through practical, science-informed methods. With a background in medical science and over a decade of laboratory experience, his approach is grounded in understanding how biological systems function - then applying that knowledge directly to the land.
EVENT DETAILS
When: Thursday, September 24th – Sunday, September 27th, 2026
Schedule: Arrive Thursday at 4:00 PM | Concludes Sunday at 4:00 PM
Cost: $990 (Includes camping access and all meals)
Accommodation & Vehicle Access
Camping is included with your ticket. Private rooms, shared rooms, and canvas cabin tents are available as optional upgrades during checkout.
Important Access Note: The venue is strictly 4WD and AWD access only.
If you plan to vehicle camp, your vehicle must be a 4WD or AWD.
If you drive a 2WD vehicle, park in the designated 2WD lot at the base of the mountain. Shuttles will run on arrival to transport you and your gear up to the venue.
Catering & Food
Nourishing, delicious vegetarian meals are fully provided from dinner on Thursday through to lunch on Sunday.
What to Bring
Clothing & Gear: Warm and cool layers (nights can get cold!), raincoat, sun hat, sturdy gardening/walking shoes, headlamp or torch, and a reusable water bottle.
Tools & Learning: Notepad, gardening gloves, and any personal hand tools you have (secateurs, folding saw, machete, hori hori, etc.).
Accessibility & Financial Support
As with all Arcoora programs, we never want finances to stand in the way of participation. If things are tight, please get in touch so we can discuss options together.
